Blog posts October 2011
Favourite Public Service #4:Pathways to Education
What if a public service really offered you the chance to transform your life? For all the talk of incentives, few public services do this convincingly. Young people might be offered some vouchers to engage wtih a programme for a week, but rarely are they made a really significant promise in return for the years of effort and commitment required to get an education.
Pathways to Education is a Canadian charity that does just that. It works offers intensive family support, tutoring and mentoring to to young people in...
Food Innovation Friday: Through the keyhole – a lesson from Africa about growing food and innovation in the face of austerity
A few months ago I was strolling through my delightful local park, Myatt's Fields, when I noticed a poster advertising for local people to come to learn how to build a keyhole garden in the park’s allotment (if you haven’t been to Myatt's Fields by the way, I highly recommend it – it’s a real hidden gem buried in the depths of South London, and embodies everything that you might ask for in a park, including a Victorian bandstand where an assortment of bands play live music every Sunday, and a quaint little café called The Little Cat...
Learning about health innovation
One of great things about working on the People Powered Health programme is that I get to research and learn about inspiring new ways of delivering healthcare from around the world.
So without having a bigger purpose, I thought i’’d share some of my favourite finds with you.
Some of this comes in big reports, like this great piece from the Health Foundation about the impact and evidence around self management, or...
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